“From Book to Movie” refers to the process of adapting a book, typically a novel, into a movie. A lot of films shown in cinemas are “From Book to Movie”, or at least they’re based on books.
Below is a list of books that have been made in to films, many of them went on to be blockbusters. The list is of course not exhaustive. A great resource is imdb.com. A very useful database of film and TV.
| 1 | 4.50 from Paddington | Agatha Christie |
| 2 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| 3 | A Passage to India | E. M. Forster |
| 4 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain |
| 5 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown |
| 6 | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 7 | Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| 8 | Beau Geste | P. C. Wren |
| 9 | Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| 10 | Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| 11 | Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
| 12 | Brighton Rock | Graham Greene |
| 13 | Carrie | Stephen King |
| 14 | Casino Royale | Ian Fleming |
| 15 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Roald Dahl |
| 16 | Christine | Stephen King |
| 17 | Cool Hand Luke | Donn Pearce |
| 18 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens |
| 19 | Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie |
| 20 | Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak |
| 21 | Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| 22 | Dune | Frank Herbert |
| 23 | Evil Under the Sun | Agatha Christie |
| 24 | Forrest Gump | Winston Groom |
| 25 | Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| 26 | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier |
| 27 | Gone with the Wind | Margaret Mitchell |
| 28 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| 29 | Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| 30 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone | J.K. Rowling |
| 31 | he People That Time Forgot | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 32 | Ice Station Zebra | Alistair MacLean |
| 33 | Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| 34 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë |
| 35 | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| 36 | Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| 37 | Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 38 | Les Misérables | Victor Hugo |
| 39 | Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens |
| 40 | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| 41 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding |
| 42 | Mansfield Park | Jane Austen |
| 43 | Mary Poppins | P. L. Travers |
| 44 | Matilda | Paul Gallico |
| 45 | Misery | Stephen King |
| 46 | Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck |
| 47 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| 48 | Our Man in Havana | Graham Greene |
| 49 | Pet Sematary | Stephen King |
| 50 | Pride & Prejudice | Jane Austen |
| 51 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| 52 | Rising Sun | Michael Crichton |
| 53 | Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 54 | Schindler’s List | Thomas Keneally |
| 55 | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| 56 | Tarzan | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 57 | The African Queen | C. S. Forester |
| 58 | The Borrowers | Mary Norton |
| 59 | The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| 60 | The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| 61 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| 62 | The Dark Tower | Stephen King |
| 63 | The Day of the Jackal | Frederick Forsyth |
| 64 | The Day of the Triffids | John Wyndham |
| 65 | The Devil Rides Out | Dennis Wheatley |
| 66 | The Devil Wears Prada | Lauren Weisberger |
| 67 | The Dogs of War | Frederick Forsyth |
| 68 | The Eagle Has Landed | Jack Higgins |
| 69 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck |
| 70 | The Green Mile | Stephen King |
| 71 | The Guns of Navarone | Alistair MacLean |
| 72 | The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams |
| 73 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 74 | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo |
| 75 | The Hunger Games | Suzanne Collins |
| 76 | The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells |
| 77 | The Island of Doctor Moreau | H. G. Wells |
| 78 | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| 79 | The Land That Time Forgot | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 80 | The Lord of the Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| 81 | The Mysterious Island | Jules Verne |
| 82 | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens |
| 83 | The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| 84 | The Painted Veil | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 85 | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| 86 | The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| 87 | The Prisoner of Zenda | Anthony Hope |
| 88 | The Rainbow | D. H. Lawrence |
| 89 | The Red Pony | John Steinbeck |
| 90 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| 91 | The Shining | Stephen King |
| 92 | The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris |
| 93 | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | John le Carré |
| 94 | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| 95 | The Time Machine | H. G. Wells |
| 96 | The Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| 97 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee |
| 98 | Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh |
| 99 | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 100 | Vanity Fair | William Makepeace Thackeray |